Overclocking

The overclocking results listed in this section were achieved with the default fan and voltage settings as defined in the VGA BIOS. Please note that every single sample overclocks differently, which is why our results here can only serve as a guideline for what you can expect from your card. On NVIDIA cards with boost, the values discussed here are base clock. Boost will further increase clocks.



Maximum overclock of our sample is 1235 MHz GPU clock (8% overclocking) and 1400 MHz memory (14% overclock).

GPU overclocking potential is quite good, even with the HIS card being overclocked out of the box already. Memory overclocks just so-so because of the Elpida memory chips on the card, which are known to not OC as well as chips from Hynix or Samsung.

Overclocked Performance

Using these clock frequencies, we ran a quick test of Battlefield 3 to evaluate the gains from overclocking.


Actual 3D performance gained from overclocking is 8.6%.